Schism

The Wanderer above the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich. I have included this image because it is emblematic of the Romantic movement in the visual Arts. Romanticism was the successor to the attitudes that prevailed in the Age of Enlightenment and provoked the modern image of the Artist that most of us are familiar with now. It is the point at which a distinction can be drawn between high and low art, Art and Illustration, perhaps?



Here is Walter Benjamin [15 July 1892—27 September 1940], enemy of the reproduced image. Walter Benjamin wrote extensively about the negative effects of mediation on the 'aura' of the original work of Art. See 'the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.'